Tribal Council member Michael Cherry recently attended her first National Congress of American Indians meeting held in Anchorage, Alaska. Cherry talks with Smoke Signals Social Media/Digital Journalist Kamiah Koch about the experience, which included attending briefings on murdered and missing Indigenous people, cultural presentations by Alaskan Natives and seeing the sun in the sky at midnight.

Link for the Native Teachings Toolkit for survivors of domestic violence: https://www.niwrc.org/resources/toolkit/reconnecting-native-teachings-and-creating-healing-spaces-and-2slgbtq-victim

Full story and video:
https://www.smokesignals.org/articles/2022/05/05/corvallis-school-district-renames-elementary-school-after-kathryn-harrison/